The "Transition Yourself" workshop .... (TBA)



Meta-information about the workshop.

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Return to my LWPS post called Google Groups.

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Welcome to my LWPS post about my Google Groups (GG).

I am most active in the private "Transition Yourself" GG.

Please click on this link to go to the LWPS post I am maintaining about my work with that group.

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My Google Profile (Private)

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has just released this table of employment by occupation, 2008 and projected 2018.

Thanks to Dr. Laurence Shatkin's Tweet 12/10/09

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Ofer Malamud, a University of Chicago labor economist, has written an interesting paper on the effects of early specialization on career change. His findings are that university students who specialize early are more likely to change careers than students who specialize later. He proposes that the years of university exploration contribute to a better understanding of tastes, preferences and abilities and lead to greater alignment between studies and work.

See http://www.nber.org/papers/w15522 for an abstract and info on downloading. Also, Inside Hgher Ed has an article on the paper at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/11/25/nber.

It’s an interesting exploration that can be obtained from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Downloads are free to people with .gov and .edu email addresses.

Source: Scott Gillie's post on the ACSCI-L Yahoo Group

In his  "Back to School Event" speech at Arlington, Virginia on September 8, 2009, President Barack Obama said ...

Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide.

Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up. No one’s written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

These people succeeded because they understand that you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you.

So today, I want to ask you, what’s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country?

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The speech - http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/
The video - http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/A-Message-of-Hope-and-Responsibility-for-Americas-Students/

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Dr. Laurence Shatkin just posted a tweet about a four (4) page PDF entitled "Career planning the second time around" which is pages 12-15 of the Summer 2009 • Occupational Outlook Quarterly.

I mention it here because the article emphasizes the need to "know yourself" through self-assessment and reflection. "Knowing yourself" is not only important the "second time around", it is also important everytime you either think you are about to have, are in the middle of one, or have just come through a transition. (http://lifeworkps.com/transitions)

But most career changers need to assess themselves, especially their skills and interests. “Self-awareness is critical, but it’s not much appreciated or understood,” says Jansen. “It’s important in identifying what you want to do, what your skills are, and what you don’t—and do—like about your current occupation.”

Self-assessment can be a difficult process because it involves identifying personal flaws as well as strengths, and failures as well as successes. “It’s a big stumbling block, because many people are resistant to the process,” says New York career counselor Angel Román. Like it or not, though, career changers need to consider their values, skills, and interests.

Self-assessment is step 2 of the career/lifework planning process. Reflection is step 6.

As you read the article and review the steps of the career/lifework planning process, you should be thinking about where you will record/collect the data, information and knowledge about yourself. Consider your blog and create a post like mine that I call "My LifeWork Planning Portal". It is the MOST important post in my blog. It shoudl be in yours as well.

Click on the tag "know yourself" below to see other post.

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I stay focused on and connected to my LifeWork by ...

1. ... reminders from my 43things account
2. ... maintaining a very short list of the key words that describe my LifeWork, and
   
3. ... creating a Google alert (GA) for variations of the key words in that list. I will get emails when someone writes about my key words. Here is a list of my GAs, and
   
4. ... finding Wikipedia articles about aspects my LifeWork (like career development, etc) and adding them to my Wikipedia watchlist, then making a note in my calendar to review my watchlist periodically, and
   
5. ... periodically sending out short notes (Tweets are a maximum of 140 characters) to my several networks.

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• My LifeWork Portal

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This post will contain links to other posts which will provide text for each of my sections in my VisualCV at http://www.visualcv.com/petehubbard

1. My Resume
2. My ...
3. My ...

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Click your browser's BACK/Return arrow to return to the post that brought you here, or return to ...

• My Resume(s) --> My Job Search Plan --> My LifeWork Plans --> My LifeWork Portal

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When you have a thought that you want to preserve, journal it ("ink it" either on paper or computer) then "link it" so you can easily find it again.¹ 

Journaling captures your thoughts so they become real for you and so you can review them later and reflect upon what is important to you before, now and maybe in the future.

But you must be able to find related thoughts so it is equally important that you "link" your thoughts via tags, and hyperlinks in your blog and indices and table of contents in either your blog or your paper journal.  

Click on the "journaling" tag below for more posts about this important topic.

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¹ I got the idea for the phrase "Think it, ink it, link it" from a similar phrase "Think it, ink it" from this page in the Higher Awareness website.

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Gail passed away peacefully this morning, April 26, 2009, at 6:10.

She was fighting congestion during the night and the antibiotics did not help. She was unconscious and unresponsive when she died, so I will conclude that she was not in pain or distress and did not suffer. (Certainly the way I wish to go.)

She had decided to donate her body for education purposes¹ and after a year or two I will receive her cremated remains.

Gail did not want a service or any special treatment. I was going to help her compose her obituary, but we never got started. So I will devote this post ( http://lifeworkps.com/hubbard/weblog/3965.html ) on my personal blog to collecting our thoughts about Gail.

This will be a work-in-progress, so please bookmark and return often to see how it develops. Please help me by sending me a note with anything you wish me to add or correct.

Gail Elizabeth Hubbard 10/16/1944 – 4/26/2009

Gail was born October 19, 1944, in Brunswick, Maine, the second of five children of Harrison Weston and Elizabeth Swanton Hubbard (both deceased). Gail is survived by her son Mark Aaron Solook, his wife Becky and their daughter Blake Solook of Alvin, Texas; her older brother Harrison Peter Hubbard and three (3) younger brothers John, James and Joseph Hubbard, five step-brothers and sisters (Mike, Jan, Kitty, Ruth and Bill Jolly), several cousins -- including Sue Hartman in Cumberland Center, Maine; members of the Carl Bartlett "Bart" Swanton family in Maine; and Gustavo Rivera, MD, a long-time friend now working at NIH.

Gail lived in Red Bank, NJ; Sturbridge, MA; and Jamesburg, NJ, until she met and married John Solook, whom she later divorced. ... She graduated from Douglass College in New Brunswick, NJ, with a BA degree in library science, and taught [ junior high ?] mathematics [ in Connecticut ? ] for a short time. Gail loved to sing whether with a choir² or as a soloist; had a delightful sense of humor; and cherished time spent in the past 8 years on the Maine coast at Mere Point, near Brunswick.

Gail’s greatest accomplishment in her final ten (10) years was the creation and maintenance of two Yahoo support groups³ (mailing lists) dedicated to one of the several diseases she suffered. Her proudest moment was when she was able to convince a group of doctors to reference her groups at a conference.

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¹Humanity Gifts Registrar (HGR) has selected Temple Medical School in Philadelphia to receive Gail's gift of her body.

²While at college (Pete at Rutgers, New Brunswick), Gail and Pete sang in the community college and shared a profoundly moving experience singing Brahm's German Requiem at the request of Eugene Ormandy (Philadeplhia Orchestra) in the Philadelphia Concert Hall a week after President Kennedy was assasinated. The program was videotaped and shown to the world.

³Panniculitis Support group at http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/panniculitis/ and the InternationalMesentericPanniculitisSociety.  Please read this eulogy post from one of the many friends Gail had nurtured in these support groups. There are several others in the Messages section that you may wish to read.